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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 18:13:33 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls stat_flags.c src/lib/libc/sys chflags.2 src/sys/sys stat.h src/sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c src/usr.bin/chflags chflags.1
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >julian      1997/06/29 01:48:52 PDT
> >
> >  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_2_2)
> >    bin/ls               stat_flags.c
> >    lib/libc/sys         chflags.2
> >    sys/sys              stat.h
> >    sys/ufs/ufs          ufs_vnops.c
> >    usr.bin/chflags      chflags.1
> >  Log:
> >  YAMFC
> >  a flag that is not quite as draconian as IMMUTABLE.
> >  if you never use this, you'll never see it.
> 
> You'll see it if you are root and someone else used it.  Even rm
> -f as root does not remove uunlink-able files, although rm -f
> as root silently removes uchg'able files and rm as root removes
> uchg'able files if you answer `y' to the prompt.  Similarly for
> `find -delete' run as root.  `find' doesn't know about the new
> flags, so it can only remove draconianly immutable files :-).
> 
> Bruce

Thanks for pointing this out.
actually there are some changes we will add to make this less noticable.


julian